NewsRoom Digest: Top NZ News Items for October 08, 2015

This edition of NewsRoom_Digest features 7 resourceful links of the day and the politics pulse from Thursday 8th October.

NEWSROOM_MONITOR

Top stories in the current news cycle include the Ngapuhi runanga defending loans it has made to Tuhoronuku, the group negotiating the iwi’s treaty settlement, Prime Minister John Key’s flying visit to the 105 New Zealand troops at Taji Military Camp in Iraq and plans by Solid Energy to close its underground Huntly East coal mine.

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POLITICS PULSE

Media releases issued from Parliament by political parties today included:

NZ HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CALLED UPON: Today the World Health Organization is calling for health professionals around the world to push for a strong effective climate agreement at the UN Climate Conference in Paris this December. In the WHO’s words, “Health professionals have a duty of care to current and future generations”. More details on the WHO’s call can be found at its webpage dedicated to its global change campaign at:http://www.who.int/globalchange/global-campaign/en/

And that’s our sampling of “news you can use” for Thursday 8th October.

Selwyn Manning, BCS (Hons.) MCS (Hons.) is an investigative political journalist with 23 years media experience. He specializes in reportage and analysis of socioeconomics, politics, foreign affairs, and security/intelligence issues.
Selwyn has extensive experience as a commentator and has provided live political analysis to a wide range of television and radio organizations broadcasting in New Zealand, Australia and globally including the BBC (Five Live, London) and BBC (World Service). He is currently a correspondent to Australia's FiveAA radio, and is a regular live-on-air panelist on Radio New Zealand's The Panel with broadcaster Jim Mora.